Set in a dystopian future where a dying Earth with a depleted ozone layer is suffering from limited resources, worldwide poverty, and infertility, a specialist division of the FBI – TCD (THE TELEPORTATION CRIME DIVISION), investigate teleportation crimes throughout the world as they face a new breed of criminality in a dark and uncertain future.

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Pilot Logline:

The year 2042, teleportation has been invented and all other modes of transportation have been outlawed in a vain attempt to save a near diminished ozone layer. Following a suspected terrorist attack at Grand Central Teleportation Terminal in New York, a specialist division of the FBI with global jurisdiction formed specifically to investigate teleportation crimes - ‘TELEPORTATION CRIME DIVISION aka TCD’, are called in to investigate. But as the lead investigator – ANDREW MCCABE starts to delve into the case; he begins to unravel a larger plot that may have links to the disappearance of his wife...

Pilot Synopsis:

Following a suspected terrorist attack at Grand Central Teleportation Terminal in New York, TCD (Teleportation Crime Division) lead investigator ANDREW MCCABE and his team based at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC are called in to investigate the attack. With evidence pointing to a terrorist group, McCabe and his team track down the group’s ring leader ERIC RATH to a disused airport in the UK – Heathrow. All teleportation out of the area is blocked as McCabe and his team supported by British armed forces, teleport into Heathrow and apprehend Rath.

The inventor’s dead body is discovered at Heathrow but Rath denies have anything to do with his capture and death, claiming the dead body is a clone and that he has been set up. McCabe’s years of Police instincts tell him something is not right, but after discussing his theories with TCD Captain LANCE HINDMAN who shoots his theories down believing he has let Rath get into his head; McCabe is sternly told the case is now closed. Undeterred, McCabe asks a Pathologist to run tests on the dead body to prove his theories that it is a clone, and then tracks down a Rath associate – an ex-Government agent who went rogue, now residing in care home in Berlin. McCabe ignores his partner - SOPHIE ORTEGA request for help on a new case and teleports to Berlin where he finds a unresponsive rouge agent who hands him a piece of paper with the words “SATURNI LUNA” written on it. Back in DC, McCabe takes up his usual spot on the steps of the Lincoln memorial to watch the sun go down when a MYSTERIOUS MAN sits down next to him who claims to know him and advises McCabe to leave the case alone.

After being shut out of top secret files relating to “Saturni Luna”, McCabe pays Rath a visit who advises him to look closer to home before getting cut off by a furious Hindman who storms in. Hindman brings McCabe’s detective skills into question, threatening him with being replaced if things don’t change. McCabe asks trusted telepod and computer analyst RYLAN THOMAS to look into “Saturni Luna” while he keeps up appearances and goes on a new case with Ortega. Rylan accesses top secret files discovering a manifest containing the names of both the inventor and McCabe’s wife - KIRSTEN. Discovering similarities in Kirsten’s and the inventor’s disappearances that he failed to see before, McCabe Teleports out in the vein hope of discovering the pattern and ultimately, Kirsten. Back at TCD headquarters a shadowy figure called MR-X gets into the building and attempts to kill Rylan. Rylan manages to fight him off but Mr-X flees as Ortega returns. Fearing the attack is connected to the manifest; Rylan tries to contact McCabe but is unable to track him as it appears McCabe is the latest victim to disappear through Teleportation. A disorientated McCabe wakes in a secret facility – the same facility from his visions, and discovers a top secret operation to colonise planet Titan, leaving millions to perish on dying Earth. With future plans to recruit McCabe to the master plan, he has his memory erased and is returned home. McCabe is back at TCD headquarters with no memory of his discovers of project “Saturni Luna” and back to square one with finding Kirsten as he sets off with Ortega on a new case. But as McCabe takes his seat on the steps of the Lincoln memorial to watch the sun go down, the Mysterious Man slides down next to him revealing himself as an alley

Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab 2017